Editing Muscogee (section)

== Population history ==
Early estimates of the Creek probably did not cover the whole nation but just parts of the population. [[James Seagrove]], an ambassador for the US to the Creek Nation and merchant who lived in southern Georgia estimated Creek population in year 1794 at 10,000 warriors (and therefore around 50,000 people). Around the same time (1789) [[Henry Knox]] wrote that the Creek lived in at least 100 towns and villages. Census taken in 1832 reported 22,700 Creeks and 900 Black slaves. Following the [[Creek War]], the [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]], the [[Treaty of Washington (1826)]], the [[Creek War of 1836|Second Creek War]] and the [[Trail of Tears|removal]] to Oklahoma, Indian Affairs 1836 reported 17,894 Creeks already removed to Oklahoma while an estimated 4,000 still remained east of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]. According to Indian Affairs 1841 the number of Creeks in Oklahoma (removed west of the Mississippi) was 24,549 while 744 still remained in the east. [[Henry Schoolcraft]] reported Creek population in 1857 as 28,214 people. It appears that Creek population declined during the subsequent years. Enumeration published in 1886 estimated only around 14,000 Creeks in Oklahoma ([[Indian Territory]]) as of 1884. Indian Affairs 1910 reported 11,911 in Oklahoma.<ref name="Krzywicki">{{Cite book |last=Krzywicki |first=Ludwik |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4381154&view=1up&seq=346&skin=2021 |title=Primitive society and its vital statistics |publisher=Macmillan |year=1934 |series=Publications of the Polish Sociological Institute |location=London |pages=526–528}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMFRAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA861 |title=Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885. Part II. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=1886 |location=Washington |pages=861}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs", Office of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1841. |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A2PBGWKCDCUSUE8A/full/AIHAF7ELMGXYOF84}}</ref><ref name="Foreman1972">{{Cite book |last=Foreman |first=Grant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8ZOg03I0s0C&pg=PA111 |title=Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]] |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-8061-1172-8 |pages=111}}</ref> While the census of 1910 counted only 6,945 Creeks.

Creek population has rebounded in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2020 there were 107,370 Creeks (including 50,168 in Oklahoma).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distribution of American Indian tribes: Creek People in the USA {{!}} County Ethnic Groups {{!}} Statimetric |url=https://www.statimetric.com/us-ethnicity/American_Indian_tribes_Creek |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.statimetric.com}}</ref>